Her work has been translated into over thirty languages.

Ann was the editor for Best American Short Stories 2006.

Her non-fiction book, Truth & Beauty, was a New York Times Bestseller and the winner of a Books for a Better Life Award. Ann Patchett is the author of several novels including The Patron Saint of Liars, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, Taft, which won the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, The Magician's Assistant, for which she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, and Bel Canto, which won the PEN/Faulkner Award, the Orange Prize, the Booksense Book of the Year Award, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. So Long, See You Tomorrow won the American Book Award, and he received the PEN/Malamud Award. A New Yorker editor for forty years, he helped to shape the prose and careers of John Updike, John Cheever, John O'Hara and Eudora Welty. He was the author of a distinguished body of work: six novels, three short story collections, an autobiographical memoir and a collection of literary essays and reviews. William Maxwell was born in Illinois in 1908. 'The novel comes from a place so deep inside the human soul that I cannot imagine a time its wisdom would not feel fresh and applicable'. Fifty years on, the narrator attempts a reconstruction of those devastating events and the atonement of a lifetime's regret.

After the murder and upheavals that follow, the boys never speak again. A tenuous friendship between lonely teenagers - the narrator, whose mother has died young, and Cletus Smith, the troubled witness to his parent's misery - is shattered. In rural Illinois, two tenant farmers share much, finally too much, until jealously leads to murder and suicide. Ann Patchett chose 'So Long, See You Tomorrow'. 'Vintage Classics' asked the winners of The Orange Prize for Fiction which books they would pass onto the next generation and why. The best books are timeless and continue to be relevant generation after generation. Books shape our lives and transform the way we see ourselves and each other. This Orange Inheritance Edition of 'So Long, See You Tomorrow' is published in association with the Orange Prize for Fiction.

So long see you tomorrow